San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-07
BRIEF MENTION.

Lord Tennyson, 1t Is rumored, may re.
sign the Laureateship this year and Lord
Rosslyn will be appoin ted in his place.
Reports from all parts OF central Ohio
are TO the effect that wheat has been
badly damaged by the recent severe
freezing.
The wages OF sailors at San Francisco
have been increased to $50 per month TO
Hawaiian Islands; S35 to bar harbors
and $40 to outside ports.
Iowa railroad property has just been
assessed at $3S,000,0O0 for purposes OF
taxation, an increase Of 81 ,000, 600 over
last years valuation.
Queen Victoria paid e5O0 for the priv
ilege OF witnessing the exclusive per-
formsnce which she recently attended
at the Olympic bippodrome.
Nine Garibaldi, widow of the Italian
liberator, lives In II quiet street OF Turin,
the walls OF her little parlor covered
with flags, medals and other mementoes
of the dead hero.
The Michigan Car company Is so
pressed with work on contracts already
made that IL recently declined to bid for
the construction OF 8, 800 cars for one OF
thC
Senator Frye has been watchir q the
process of making laws In the English
parliament. He finds 1t queer, and says
nobody In Great Britain can hold a can
die to Riddleberger between drinks.
Queen Victoria at her drawing rooms
personally receives the first eighty la
dies who enter. and as soon as she Is IN
formed that that number has passed, she
leaves the room and the Princess OF
Wales receives the rest.
Daniel Dougherty, the eloquent Phila-
delphia advocate, has almost made up
his mind 10 locate permanently in New
York City. The good impression which
he made in the Cleary trial and the high
regard entertained for him by the New
York press and the bar have filed him
with ambition to achieve new career.
He says that his mistake was In not go
ing there 80 years ago.
Buffalo is taking energetic steps to
get fire proof hotel, so that transient
visitors to that town may not be Obliged
to choose between being roasted to
death and executing feasts OF ground
and lofty tumbling In adequate apparel.
The Library association have voted to
build model hotel at an expense OF
hUOub pi,SoUooo, 'hS
take up 81 per cent. loan on the proper
ty to the amount OF S750,GO0.
The greatest of American millers is
W. ID. Washburn, OF Minneapolis. he
has one mill that turns out 5000 barrels
OF flour day, and is interested In Others
whose outfit is enormous. There is
probably no man living who is so largely
intere sted in flour.
1t is said that two battle subjects by
Carrie Vernet, representing Waterloo
and MarengO, were recently sold al
Nashville, Tenn, for ST. apiece, and
were resold to parties at Paris for $l4,-
900. They were found In secondhand
shop, and were originally the property
Of Mr.. Tate.
Patti is working the farewell racket
as though she never intended to sing In
America again. At the New York en-
gagement, boxes for the six perform
ances are to be sold at 500, magniti-
cent sum, besides which the price Of 81
for q single orchestra seat for one night
seems modest. Even TO get into the very
tOpmost heaven will cost the ardent dis
ciple of Patti $l.60.
The announcement that Mr.. Glad
stone, the great English statesman, has
Philadelphia, in September next, OF the
adoption of the federal constitution, and
that he may possibly be induced to come.
will be gratifying news to the many adj
mirers of Mr.. Gladstone in this cOuLtry.
Mr.. Gladstone has expressed his desire
TO visit the United States, but has here"
tOfOre been prevented by absorption in
political and other affairs.
The duke of Devonshire now yerpinp
on eighty, has resigned the chairman
ship of the Barrow Hematite Steel Com
pany and Barrow Shipbuilding Com
pany. He is succeeded in these posi-
lions by his son, the marquis of Harting-
ton, leader Of the liberal unionists The
marquis towns" 100000 acres of land in
the counties of Cork and Waterford, Ire
land, obtained by contiscation a couple
of centuries ago. He is vehemently OPP
posed to 1.-The Plan of Campaign"